Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes, 1883 - 486 pages |
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... reason admit not of a definition . All that can be done is to point out how they are acquired . The ideas of motion and of rest are familiar even to a child , from seeing its nurse sometimes walking , sometimes sitting the former it is ...
... reason admit not of a definition . All that can be done is to point out how they are acquired . The ideas of motion and of rest are familiar even to a child , from seeing its nurse sometimes walking , sometimes sitting the former it is ...
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... reason , it is our own fault if trifling objects make any deep impression . Had we power equally to withhold our attention from matters of importance , we might be proof against any deep impression . But our power fails us here : an ...
... reason , it is our own fault if trifling objects make any deep impression . Had we power equally to withhold our attention from matters of importance , we might be proof against any deep impression . But our power fails us here : an ...
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... reason , there can be no such thing as an abstract idea . We cannot form an idea of a part without tak- ing in the ... reason upon the one abstracting from the other . This is done by words signifying the thing to which the reason- ing ...
... reason , there can be no such thing as an abstract idea . We cannot form an idea of a part without tak- ing in the ... reason upon the one abstracting from the other . This is done by words signifying the thing to which the reason- ing ...
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... reason- ing , are brought into close union , and separated from all others however naturally connected . Without the aid of such terms , the mind could never be kept steady to its proper subject , but be per- petually in hazard of ...
... reason- ing , are brought into close union , and separated from all others however naturally connected . Without the aid of such terms , the mind could never be kept steady to its proper subject , but be per- petually in hazard of ...
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... reason upon subjects that are equally pleasant and familiar ; we proceed grad- faculties enter into that complex faculty that is called taste : -imagination , sen- timent , reason . Besides imagination and reason , the man of taste ...
... reason upon subjects that are equally pleasant and familiar ; we proceed grad- faculties enter into that complex faculty that is called taste : -imagination , sen- timent , reason . Besides imagination and reason , the man of taste ...
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